ORTEMA is one of the leading providers of sports protection and ortheses. Made in Germany! Top athletes from around the world and from all disciplines use ORTEMA products for their protection. For their sport protectors, I designed an independent ORTEMA Sports Design.

Some attempts were necessary to put the design on the ORTMA protectors. Depending on the bake temperature in the production of the protectors there colour differences in behalf of the used print films. So, various print films and colour gradations were tested. Too, in the baking the protectors material distorted the design. All the stronger ever the protector spread wide (such as on the breastplate protector). So, the design has to withstand distortions, which can not be controlled – and yet still look attractive. All in all, quite a challenge for a designer.

Some problems were already known to the ORTEMA technicians, some came to light only in the development of the prototypes. Red tones which completely drifted off into Orange, designs drawn to filigree which simply blurred on the material. Also a couple of times, we faced the situation »Oh, hell …«.

But with my idea from start, to design an ORTEMA »seamless patterns« we had a strong concept, which let us take all the hurdles. The idea was to draw a unique, attractive ORTEMA pattern, which find themselves in all kinds of sports: »Risk, luck & courage.«

No matter whether on the bike, skis, snowboard etc., whether just 4 fun or near the borderline – the ORTEMA design stands for the three »Bulletpoints« of each athlete with heavy physical usage in his sport: »He or she has the courage, risking something, and sometimes there is only the necessary ounce of luck to make the finish. And if the last one is not enough, then there is ORTEMA Sport Protection.

Already a cool feeling, that my design is perhaps worn beneath the one or other race suit!

In autum 2012 I draw my protectors design in the colors of the famous sports brand ZIENER. ZIENER is with their racing glove GIGA in cooperation with ORTEMA. There is a special version of the ORTEMA underarm protector, adapted exactly to the GIGA. Thus, my design find also his way in the ZIENER Winter Catalog.